This blue whale skeleton installation time-lapse is the most incredible thing you'll see all day

We can’t count the number of times we’ve seen an intricate display in a museum and wondered what the installation process was like. Thanks to the Natural History Museum in London, our curiosity has been satisfied in the form of this awe-inspiring time-lapse of a blue whale skeleton being erected in the building’s Hintze Hall.

The frame of the 126-year-old sea mammal hangs from the ceiling, with all 221 bones suspended in a diving lunge feeding position. The installation took months of preparation, and it’s an incredible sight.

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On Thursday, the museum presented an official unveiling of Hope along with the time-lapse video that shows the skeleton being pieced together from start to finish.

"Blue whales had been hunted to near extinction but they became the first species we decided on a global scale to save, giving us hope for the future," the museum wrote on Facebook.

1 day to go to the reopening of #HintzeHall:Our countdown is nearly over so it’s time to unveil Hope, the new #BlueWhale display in the Hall: http://bit.ly/NHM-Museum-unveils-Hope-HH Blue whales had been hunted to near extinction but they became the first species we decided on a global scale to save, giving us hope for the future.Visitors to the Museum can say hello to Hope and see all the other new displays in the Hall from 10.00 tomorrow, 14 July. Today we are closed all day so if you find yourself in the South Kensington area, please enjoy visiting one of our immediate neighbours, the Science Museum or the Victoria and Albert Museum.Tonight, if you are a UK resident, don’t miss the BBCHorizon documentary on the behind-the-scenes transformation of Hintze Hall, Dippy and the Whale, that will air on BBC Two at 21.00 to 22.00 BST: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08y3s55For those of you who see the programme (and for those who don’t!) we will be hosting a special #NHM_Live here on Facebook shortly after the broadcast, to take your questions about the new display, so watch out for the link once it goes live.Make sure you don't miss out on easier access to the new displays and exclusive events by becoming Member of the Museum today: http://bit.ly/Become-an-NHM-Member

While the whale is obviously the free exhibit’s main attraction — the Duchess of Cambridge and Sir David Attenborough attended a gala launch ahead of the unveiling —it is also accompanied by various specimens that represent the world’s natural beauty, including the skeleton of an American mastadon, a 4.5-billion-year-old Imilac meteorite gem that dates to the beginning of the solar system and a 122-129-million-year-old Mantellisaurus, one of the most complete dinosaur fossils ever found in the U.K.